རིགས་བཞི། | Glossary of Terms

རིགས་བཞི།

rigs bzhi

caturvarṇa
cāturvarṇa

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four castes

The Good Eon

four castes

རིགས་བཞི།

rigs bzhi

cāturvarṇa

Definition in this text:

The four social classes of traditional Hindu society: brahmin, kṣatriya, vaiśya, and śūdra.

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The Sovereign Ritual of Amoghapāśa

four castes

རིགས་བཞི།

rigs bzhi

caturvarṇa

Definition in this text:

The four main castes of Indic society: brahmin, kṣatriya, vaiśya, and śūdra.

12 passages contain this term

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RP

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RS

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